Book Review: iZombie Vol. 3 by C. Roberson et al.

iZombie Volume 3: Six Feet Under and Rising written by Chris Roberson, art by Michael Allred and Jay Stephens, and colors by Laura Allred

See my review of Volume 1 here. and Volume 2 here.

Gwen, the intelligent zombie, is fulfilling another dead person's unfinished business when she's invited by local mummy and seeming villain Amon for a special event. They celebrate her birthday with Ellie the Ghost and Scott the Were-Terrier. Amon makes another pitch for Gwen to help his schemes but she says no. He want her to take innocent lives and eat more brains but hasn't quite explained all his motives. The action picks up when Gwen's monster-hunting boyfriend starts fighting local vampires and zombies who are becoming more numerous. Scott falls through a sinkhole at the graveyard and discovers underground caverns that are full of zombies. While Gwen mounts a rescue effort, her boyfriend's partner gets more monster hunters from their secret HQ in London to bring back to Eugene, Oregon. If that wasn't bad enough, this issue introduces The Dead Presidents, a federal government secret agency that also hunts monsters (though the agents are all monsters, but the good(?) kind). They have some non-Oregon adventures but soon enough are drawn into the zombie outbreak in Eugene. 

The story is still interesting and weaves in a lot of different narratives of the ever-expanding cast of characters. There's hints that Amon knew Gwen before she turned and that a mad scientist is involved with summoning a world-ending elder god/monster. None of those are resolved because there's still another volume to go.

Recommended--this is a different zombie story that throws in enough new stuff to keep it interesting.